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During the outburst, Carmack, Carter, junior first baseman Josh San Salvador and freshman third baseman Mickey Kropf each came around to score after drawing walks...
...work in meat-packing plants. Marshalltown (pop. 26,000) became 12% Hispanic overnight. The monocultural town was totally unprepared. Schools struggled to cope with non-English speakers. A methamphetamine industry sprang up, which police blamed on Mexican gangs. Most of the new arrivals, like Gilberto Ortega, 36, from El Salvador, toiled long hours at jobs nobody else wanted. Ortega, a meatcutter, supported his wife and two children on $9 an hour. He says he has been too busy to learn English...
...done that violated the dignity of others. Role-playing exercises require them to step into a suspect's shoes. Over the course of three days, the cops, most of whom are shift commanders, are forced to confront themselves and their past. In one session, a police officer from El Salvador admitted that his superiors told him a prisoner he was escorting should be killed. "I got a hero's medal for murder," he told the stunned class...
...course can be tough going," says Curran, "but it changes them." In Jamaica cops who returned from the classes immediately began reforming the prisons, allowing inmates basic rights, like making phone calls. In El Salvador graduates began segregating youthful offenders from adults in jail. In other countries cops have incorporated the course's techniques into their training programs. A recent survey of the first crop of graduates concluded that the course had been "a watershed in their own lives...
...least 280 people were killed, more than 2,400 injured and around 123,000 left homeless after a devastating earthquake hit El Salvador, the second to strike the country in a month. Measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, the new quake was smaller than January's but caused huge damage because its epicenter was on land rather than under the ocean. At week's end, many roads in the worst-affected areas were still blocked, hampering the distribution of food, water and medicines...